Recycling has proven to be a dynamic industry over the past several decades, not only locally or around the northeast region of the State, but also across the entire nation and even internationally. What started out in the 1970s as a simple push to help clean up the environment has ultimately transitioned into big business and global commodity trading. Sometimes the shifts in the markets can have substantial impacts even on our local recycling programs, the latest and most impactful of which was a few years back when China stopped accepting shipments of recyclable materials from the United States. This...

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